Counterplan (film)

Counterplan (Russian: Встречный, romanized: Vstrechnyy) is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler.[1] The film's title song, "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich with lyrics by the poet Boris Kornilov,[2][3] became world famous. Shostakovich's composition, with new lyrics by Jeanne Perret, would be used shortly after in the notable song of the French socialist movement, "Au-devant de la vie".[4]

Counterplan
Directed bySergei Yutkevich
Fridrikh Ermler
Written byLev Arnshtam
Fridrikh Ermler
Leonid Lyubashevsky
Sergei Yutkevich
StarringVladimir Gardin
CinematographyAleksandr Gintsburg
Iosif Martov
Vladimir Rapoport
Music byDmitri Shostakovich
Production
company
Release date
7 November 1932
Running time
118 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Shostakovich was to use the piece again in his Poem of the Motherland (1947), another film entitled Mitchurin (1948) and his 1958 operetta Moscow, Cheremushki!. In 1942 the song was given English words by Harold J. Rome under the title "United Nations on the March" and in this guise it was featured as the choral finale to MGM's patriotic war-time musical Thousands Cheer (1943). That same year, Leopold Stokowski made an orchestral arrangement of the song and this was given the title "United Nations March".

This film could be considered a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory.

Cast
  • Vladimir Gardin - Babchenko
  • Mariya Blyumental - Tamarina
  • Tatyana Guretskaya - Katya
  • Andrei Abrikosov - Pavel
  • Boris Tenin - Vasya
  • Boris Poslavsky - Skvortsov
  • M. Pototskaya - Skvortsov's mother
  • Aleksei Alekseyev - Plant's director
  • Nikolai Kozlovsky - Lazarev
  • Vladimir Sladkopevtsev - Morgun
  • Yakov Gudkin - Chutochkin
  • Nikolai Michurin - worker
  • Pyotr Alejnikov - worker
  • Stepan Krylov - worker
  • Nikolai Cherkasov
  • Zoya Fyodorova

References
  1. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. Jacek Klinowski & Adam Garbicz (2012). Feature Cinema in the 20th Century: a Comprehensive Guide. Vol. One: 1913-1950. Planet RGB Limited. ISBN 978-1-624-07564-3.
  3. Matthew Tobin Anderson (2015). Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad. Candlewick Press. ISBN 978-0-763-68054-1.
  4. Charles Rearick (1997). The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300064339.


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